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OLUMN 17 No. 31
WECK ENDltfG SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1937
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MARRIAGt: ANNOUNCED
MRS. JOHN P R E S T O N I week when Mr. Thorpe caino
HORPE,* atove, who before her| om* from Atlantic City, N^,jlfc
arria^ was Miss Naoma Wal The couple will spend the remain-
daughter of Rev. T. V. Wal- der Of the' Summer in Atlantic
r of 407 Umsti'ad St. Miss Wal-(Ciiyi.'and will return to the city
"r was secretly married to John , in the fall. Mrs. Thorpe is a tua-
restjon Thorpe of this city on ther in the W. G. Pearsno Eiemen-
DEFENSE TEARS DOWN GIRL’S
STORY IN SCOnSBORO CASE
a’I
To
1 Appeal Sentence
Hell And Back’ Sayspjj|jgj|
Samuel Leibowitz
the time of the sjleged
When she fif^
BECATU®, Ala., July 21—.had at
ANP—1 wW app«a) th« tcatene* attack.
to b«l| and baek. J uioj} p«3J jaXM«{ 9;U33
That was the grim statement ’ transcript given at the original
of Chief Defense Council Samuel trial in 1931 at Scottsboro which
L»ibowStK of New York as -Clar^ ’ jier saying she had “a
cnce Norris, first of the eight Ne- dollar and a half.”
grroes^to go on trial in the new
chapter of he Scotts(boro casea,
was sentenced to death Thursday
afternoon by an all white jury in
the court , of , Jiu(|^ W. W.
(Speed) Callahan.
Dispite holee tom by the de-.|
fehse^Tn the testimony "oC i
Victoria Price, chief complianing I
Callahan reprimanded Leibo
witz for his method of crops ex
amination, saying, “If you keep
iip this argumer.'i, you won’t have
anything to tell the jury. I’m goin’
to excuse you this time because I
realize you are young and inex
perienced.” '
Leibowitz, who at the time was
etober 17, 1996, in Halifax, Va. ♦ .rjfschool, Mr; Thorpe is employ- J® "P* Victoria versus Clarence
he tnarriag* anrtOttflcea ^ ed hi Ralcifh, N, C. [Kgrris, but the State of Alabama
witness,J|hd;|q C%il|ahan ‘fM ^b^t asking Victoria about testimony
asked the jury to brin«r in a ver-I ghe gave at Scottsboro coneern-
dict of guilty in his charge to ing the two guns, apologised. But
them Thursday afternoon. He ^ bie continued to hammer away at
said, “the law would authoriee her assertion she ‘believe# Nor-
testimony aionc. . j.jg ^as ane of the two youths
ctonviction on Victoria iPrice’s' armed with pistols. He read from
However, he added, “This soit ‘-a transcript of the original triaJ
leveland
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For Great
Preps
Elks
Convention
CLEVELAND, Ohio — (ANP)
The greatest entertainment
offered by the EUks conven-
on is being planned here in the
fty of great conventiohls for the
8th 3rand Lodge sessions of the
;iks. It was announced reCentlyf*
y Councilman Lawrence (LarVy)
Payne, general chairman of
le local committee on arrange-
lenta.
Assisting in the elaborate iVQik
f Henri Stueker, advertising a-
ent of New York who arrived in
iiejcitjL* few weeks ago as ad-
ance man. Governor Martin L.
avey and Mayor Hanold H. Bur-
are scheduled to meet a r'eccp-
ion group h€|xe on August 2'2 and
fficially turn over J;he, keys to
rand Exaltpd Ruler J. Finii'v
Olsan ol Wa>hingTin»i,.«r>, C. and
,rand Daughter Ruler Abbifi E.
ohngon of Phila. Councilman L.
ayne will Ije proclaimed ‘Mayoi*’
Sr the week^ , .
Elks’ :Day will be held August
at the Creat Lakes Exposition
tuated on the, beautiful shores of
ke Elrie, exhibiting the world's
jost outstanding attj»eti^ns. The-
rand Ball is to be held in
majrpificent municipal audi-
ir
orium. It ia also hoped that an-
ual .Bast-West basdball classis
ill be held here duriijig J;he con-
ention. -"t-
Local units^of the organization
ai'ticipating wilL 'be the Spiric of
hid Lodge No. 52; ping Tut
dge No. 389; Glenara Temple
'o. .21; Mary g. Talbert Temple
2‘%7; and Mytyi Majestic Lod-
No. 94.
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ENDS MAJIRIACE
NNOUNOEMENT
Mrs. Virginia Y. Cunningh)^tTi
of Baltimore, Md, has sent an-
ouncements of the marriage- of
f>r daughter Grace Cleola to Al
exander Brawnon Massey, Jr., on
Friday June 18, ip Saltimore,
Mrs. Massey ia a teacher at Hill
aide Park School, -^bile Mr. Mas-
'sCts • gdverrfnrent employee.
The couple will be at hoin3
Race Woman
To Work Here
■ MISS ‘ MAJBY LA. VERTA
HUFF, above, who is now working
in this city, 3S one of the outstand
ing women of 'the race. She re
ceived her P'. A. in Sociology and
Social work from the Universitj^
of Minnesota in li932 with Magna
CumLaudev and was elected to the
Phi Beta Kappa, National Scholas
tic Fraternity. From 193i2“33, she
,w^6rked in the sociology depart-
,ment of I’isk University, and also
made a study of the extent and
treatment if Juvenile Delinquency
among Negroes in Nashville,
Tenn. This work was published
Coatiauad on Pag* S
versus Clarence Norris. Victoria
Trice has no more to do with
this case than any other women.
She was called and brought here
by the State to testify for' tho
State.
'‘Romemli^ She’* White"
“I also want you to remember
that where the woman is white,
there is strong presumption under
the law that she did not yield to
the advances of a Negro.”
This is the third time in the
more than six years of the sase
that No^riris has heard himself
condemned to die in th^ electric*
chair. Twice he has been saved
byi the U. S. supreme cohrt. He
hopes that again the nation’s
highest tribunal will intervene,
if need be.
Due to the illness of CJarence
^ Watts, Alabam>a lawyer who
played a leading role in th^ trials
because of the beljef here t'lat
a harmonious settlement of lie
c«s» coiild be brought a/bout with
local attorney added to the de
fense, the trial of Charlie Weems,
scheduled to Ibegin Thursday;
was postponed until July 22. |
T>ta-ee on Venire; None Called j
Thireie Negroes were incHaded
in the venire of lOO prospective'
tttpymen s^yom In Monday wlimt
the case began. As Callahan ad
ministered the oath, one asl^d to
be excused ibecause he had a '
"fixed opinion” of the case. The
names of the other two were
struck !by the state. iProescutor
Thomas F. Lawson said that the
mete drawing of their* names
fi^iUed coi^i^ijt^jtionail require^,,
ments (ind contended the state
had a right to strike anybody it
choge^ re^rdless of zac^^ in the
selection of the jury. '
Openii^ witness for the state
w*as Vicftoriia Price, who again
told a story of how she and Rul^
Bates were asMulted by tb© nine
youths aboard a freight train in
March, l«31.*aie said the Ne^o^s
Came up yelling to their white
companions, "Alt you whiteiboy^
Uieqv JO OAk^ 9J0AS oqgf ..’pBoiim
had guns and the other® had
knives, and that Norris threaten
ed" to kill her if she did-nqt yield.
Victoria a8se;^d that Ae fwas
ravished 4>y Norris and five
wl^e she
unarmed.
declared flofria- was
To refute the womail’s story
RETURNS FROM C. E.
CONVENTION
H, Y. St0r6S|Divine Sends Air
m a t i Letter To
John W. Hunt
TTie S6th International Christ
Etetdoavor ■Convetttioro—
closed its 1937 session July 13th
Firing; Cioso
NEW YORK. July 2'2—(CNA)
In recognition that the recent
WPA maw iiismissals will seriou
sly affect the economic situation
in the community, hundreds of
Harlem tousiness concerns obser
ved a fifteen-minute stoppage on
Saturday in support of the cam
paign of the community’s thrte
major project workers’ organiza
tiona against the WPA firin'^.*
The business stoppage took
^ place in the fliidst of the stoies’
week-end rush hour, beginning J
at 12 o’clock noon. It virtually
tired up the Harlem (business 'ec-
tion, which stretches. from 110th
Street to 145th Street, on Lenox
Seventh, Eighth and Fifth Aves.
Simultaneously, parades, open-
air meeting and other activities
pirotestii^r the thousands of dis-
mileals bi Negro workers, were
held throughout the stoppage
“Jtmr ^
WASHINGTON
that she was so brutally treated -was attended by more than 1*0,00.
the defense read into the record
the testimony of Dr. R. R. Bridges
of Scottsboro, now deceased,given
at the last trial of Norris in Nov.
1'933. The physician was called by
the state in the original trial
but becouse his testimony did not
show either woman attacked, he
Xq Usq) 30UI8 pajouSi uaaci svq
the defense.
t ’
,Bla«t* her Story
Dr. Bridges who examined the
Women immediately aft*#^ th'^y
taken froo the train, 'had declared
in open cocrt that he fobnd oiily
siiall scratches on her fotearms
and a Jjrcise “the siiie of a pecan
nut in thi? small of herback.” Her
pulse and respiration were puite
normal, a condition most unusual
for a woman who had undergone
the abuse she swore she had.
To further refute
4toi-y, Leibowitz 'brought in a sur
prise witness. Mrs,
0 delegates, according to Dr. J. A
Valentine, whose photo appears
above. Dr, Valentine is pastor of
the St Joseph AME chutich. The
convention, stated Dr. Valentine,
was minus any evidence of racial
discrimination, Negro delegates,
numbering about 100 participat
ing on eqnal ibMis With ^ othor
races represented. The mamcth
parade took more -than two hours
to pass any givpn point and wa.s
reported bo have been the long
est seen in the city o'f Grand Ra
pids in many years.
mother of Ruiby, ;who later ve |(-q
pudiated the attack yarn and
said the whole thing was a fram%-
up. '
The Price Woman was red and
&ngry as Mrs. Bates was brought
forward for iden^fication. The
niother testified as to Victoria’s
bad reputation and how i^e and
Bu'by even ‘entertained the two
boys in their cell after the arrest
and they were removed only after
Complainittg' to (authorities. Tl^e
}eifenae also introduced evidence
Victoria a ^ purporting to show that Victoria.
a, j’u/lly grown woman, induced
Emma Bates,' ^
Alabami
poses.
for immoral pur-
Wonldn’t Believe Her
Leibowitz also put S.
teon, foj^mer Huntsville deputy
Continued on Page 8
VICE-COMMANDER
'X
I^ST COMMANDER
aft^ September I, at 811 Pay-
etteville St., this cityv
tKe others and that she and Ruby
were hobolng-alboard th«-irei^t
to tf»eir homf in Huntsville, Ala.,
after an unsuccessful attempt to
find wo^ in Chattanooga, Tenn.
Direct examination was brief.
>n ibross etemination, Leibowitz
J. W. Smith, Department’Com
mander of the Horth Carolina
0^, Division of the American Legion
who predicts that the state con
vention which meets here July 2S,
26 will be the largest in the his
tory of the organization.
RIGHT—N. .A. Brewingtdn, Por.
Commander of the Weaver Me*
asked her how much inoney she Lean Post No, ITR
Sponsoring the dramatics dem
onstration were the City Project^
Councils and Local 543 of the
WPA Teachers’ Union, with joint
offices at 32^ Lenox Avenue, and
the Harlem Council of the work
ers’ Alliance^ 103 West 133rd St.
A special .‘death watch’* led by
the Artists’ Union and the Har
lem Artists’ Guild, called attwi-
tion to the death of LoUis Vaugh
27-year-old artist, who committed
suicide following the receipt of a"
WPA pink slip last montR.
Beryle Banfield, Negro organ-,
zer of the Harlem City Councils
Projects, said that the stores a-
greed to cooperate in the protest
MRS. NELL HUNTER, wife of
Dr. A- R. Hanterr who is attend-
ing the National Recreational In
stitution in Washington, D. C.
Mrs. Hunter is Assistant Director
of Music for the WPA.
action because the “WPA dismii>-
sals will sharply reduce the pur
chasing power of the Negro peo
ple in Harlem.”
A.mong the larger stores that
closed their doors for the fifteen
minute period were |B|lumstein’s
Department store, on West 125th
Street., Herberl^’s Jewelry store,
largest of its kind ■ in Harlem.,
Ludwig Bauman., Davega’s sport
store., Busch’s credit store., Ad
ams hat store and Vim’s radio
and sports shop.'*
Popular Men’s
Magazine Blasts
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, Chicago, July 23. — (ANP)—E.
Simms Campbell, the talented
anH wifo; (]onnie, are
the subject of the leadirig edltoriar
in the August issue of “Esquire,”
the, magawn'e for men, in which
American race prejuiice comes'in
for a genuine blasting.
The ^itorial -was* caused b ihe.
recent vacation trip of the (Camp
bells which took them to the 0ir-
ibbeah~ islands ^and the Panama
Canal Zone. At the latter, which
is U. ,S. soil and almost as pre
judiced as Texas, the travelers
had difficulty in getting decent
accomodations for their short sta^r,
«nd obtained passage back to New
STork in a part of the steariier not
prdinarily used by cok>re6 because
their names were «onfused with
that of a white official.
iWhen the Campdella presented
themselves and . their i«ce was
seen, attempts were made by of
ficials to get their staterooms
chained, this thetOampbells would
not permit. As a result, they were
virtually ostracized on their f rs*
couple of days at sea. But when
word got around that this was the
same Campbell whos^
are one of Esquire’^ biggest fea
ture, passengers alnroBt 'swiimped
the artist witlf requests for his
oil'Paf* ♦
TIRE SAtEiSMAN.
New York —C) — In an air
niail, special delptery letter to
John Wuest Hunt,at Los Angeles
County Jail, Father Divine wrote
his former disciple, who was con
victed of violating the Mann act,
in part as follows:
‘‘I am wtiting to say it is a
consolation to know the Court’s
sentence was not as severe as it
might have been, and that it w»»
Igg^ient by MY”’spInr'’with mercy ■
and compassion: uniS?i?”fRe viola
tion of the law of both God and
man.
“By an open ' confeasion, com
passion and mercy were conaid-
ered, and God in compassion e*«
tended clemency to a certain d»-
gree. Therefore, as I have in
structed, I am instructing, an open
confession is good for the soul.
“It is understood,^^by others as
well air yourself, 'that even the
act of any person participating
Eley B. Copeland, the fh-at .'le-
gro of TJurhain to be emplOjRfd
as a full time tire salesman. Mr.
Copeland w^ recently promoted’
t6 the po^ilon Jjy tine ’Rre Divpibn
of the Alexander Motor Company
of this city. Seven years ago he
started working for the organi-
drawings m a. .regular fiUing sUtion
‘employee, birt-fcia-bonesty, Ability
and cliaracter so impressed hia
employers that he was soon re
garded as one of their best men.
tion tomety ficmfwypcmfwypuii
with the opposite sex, is a viola
tion to my teaching, ^ qf
Christ in the Virtue of Mary _aad
the Holiness of Jesi^ muat 'Su an.
acted in all of your dealings. T«
walk in the light I have so freely
given, one must abstain from all
appearances of evil and the very
God of Peace will sanctify him
holy. Sanctification means sep
aration to seperate you from
human affection and self-indulg
ence. Therefore when you fully
abide by MY teaching, you also
abide by the Federal Law of our
great country. That is why 1
wrote you and Delight the letter
to Palm Springs as soon as I
heard by your telegram, that there
was any sense or appearance of
human affection or personal cor
respondence, of which was in vio
lation td MY Life and ,MY Teach
ing.
“However, as yoiT have made
the open confeasion to. faotii. God
and man, if you have forsaken all
of those tendencies, fancies and
pleasures, your sins are forgiven.
All you must .needs do is to con
tinue to live it and express it in
prison, as well as when, you re
ceive your freedom, continue to"
live Evaiigelically, the Sajfte"™
freedom as in prison, without ac
cusation^ resenlmeBt or. condem—
nation, and you will be' , Messed
continual^; for the open aj^ tha
forsaking yOur |h every
way of expression, especially in
the way of seifTrinduJ^enca or
man affection will ^ve you yow
real emancipation, and no dMiot
will give you your freedom befor*
the tiijje, expires. For it ia writ
ten: ‘If you continue in My words,
you shall know the Truth and tb«
Truth shall set you free. By re
fraining from your foiWer tenden
cies and your sins of self-iadalg-
ence to appease the mortal self,
you will be abundjyitly blaaaad,
and when.,you are -cbmpleteiy for*
given In reality,there may ba
CoAtiaMd M Fa«e 7
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Mt. Veraoa Baptist Cfcai'A 'Wttl'*
Hdd Cloaiag Eaprciaea Ami Ea*
UWt-DaUy V^tiM Bible S«h««l
SwMky Jaly XB tli at t«M
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The Mt. Vernon Baptist Ckorell
opened its Daily Vacation BttJa
S 'hool work Monday July
at 9:00 o'cloeki with »ii fcMnW-
n*ent of 69 sludfota. Tfc#
ment today haa tlM toiil
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